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Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds written by M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier) and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. de (Bernard Le Bovier) Fontenelle
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520071719
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds written by M. de (Bernard Le Bovier) Fontenelle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying the night sky, a charming philosopher and his hostess, the Marquise, are considering thep ossibility of travelers from the moon. "What if they were skillful enough to navigate on the outer surface of our air, and from there, through their curiosity to see us, they angled for us like fish? Would that please you?" asks the philosopher. "Why not?" the Marquise replies. "As for me, I'd put myself into their nets of my own volition just to have the pleasure of seeing those who caught me." In this imaginary conversation of three hundred years ago, readers can share the excitement of a new, extremely daring view of the uinverse. Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes), first published in 1686, is one of the best loved classics of the early French enlightenment. Through a series of informal dialogues that take place on successive evenings in the marquise's moonlit gardens, Fontenelle describes the new cosmology of the Copernican world view with matchles clarity, imagination, and wit. Moreover, he boldly makes his interlocutor a woman, inviting female participation in the almost exclusively male province of scientific discourse. The popular Fontenelle lived through an entire century, from 1657 to 1757, and wrote prolifically. H. A. Hargreaves's fresh, appealing translation brings the author's masterpiece to new generations of readers, while the introduction by Nina Rattner Gelbart clearly demonstrates the importance of the Conversations for the history of science, of women, of literature, and of French civilization, and for the popularization of culture.
Author : David Lewis
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631224266
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (242 download)
Download or read book On the Plurality of Worlds written by David Lewis and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2001-02-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a defense of modal realism; the thesis that our world is but one of a plurality of worlds, and that the individuals that inhabit our world are only a few out of all the inhabitants of all the worlds. Lewis argues that the philosophical utility of modal realism is a good reason for believing that it is true.
Author : Fontenelle Bernard le Bovier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780243817900
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Conversations On the Plurality of Worlds written by Fontenelle Bernard le Bovier and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. de Fontenelle
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds written by M. de Fontenelle and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De Fontenelle was a seventeenth-century writer and astronomer. This is a translation of his very famous and influential work. The conversations of the title are between a knowledgeable man and a woman who has no knowledge of astronomy. The intention of the book was to enable women to learn about the planets and the possibility that life (even if not human life) might exist on other planets.
Author : Bernard de Fontenelle
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364798768
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (Classic Reprint) written by Bernard de Fontenelle and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-17 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds Whenever I have entered into conversation with any sensible woman on astronomy, I-have always found that she had read Fontenelle's Plurality of Worlds; au'd that his book had excited her. Curiosity on the subject. As it has been so much read already, it must continue to engage at tention: I therefore thought it would be useful to point out its faults; to add some observations, without which the reader would be led into error with respect to the vor tices; to make known the late discoveries; and to shew what numbers, before our author, had written on the plu rality of worlds. But I have made no alterations in the text; the reputation of Fontenelle renders 'him respectable, even in his mistakes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Man's Place in the Universe written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Man's Place in the Universe" by Alfred Russel Wallace. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781904799573
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds written by Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
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Download or read book Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds written by M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier) and published by . This book was released on 1715 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds written by M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier) and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nina Rattner Gelbart
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 052092410X
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The King's Midwife written by Nina Rattner Gelbart and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unorthodox biography explores the life of an extraordinary Enlightenment woman who, by sheer force of character, parlayed a skill in midwifery into a national institution. In 1759, in an effort to end infant mortality, Louis XV commissioned Madame Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray to travel throughout France teaching the art of childbirth to illiterate peasant women. For the next thirty years, this royal emissary taught in nearly forty cities and reached an estimated ten thousand students. She wrote a textbook and invented a life-sized obstetrical mannequin for her demonstrations. She contributed significantly to France's demographic upswing after 1760. Who was the woman, both the private self and the pseudonymous public celebrity? Nina Rattner Gelbart reconstructs Madame du Coudray's astonishing mission through extensive research in the hundreds of letters by, to, and about her in provincial archives throughout France. Tracing her subject's footsteps around the country, Gelbart chronicles du Coudray's battles with finance ministers, village matrons, local administrators, and recalcitrant physicians, her rises in power and falls from grace, and her death at the height of the Reign of Terror. At a deeper level, Gelbart recaptures du Coudray's interior journey as well, by questioning and dismantling the neat paper trail that the great midwife so carefully left behind. Delightfully written, this tale of a fascinating life at the end of the French Old Regime sheds new light on the histories of medicine, gender, society, politics, and culture.
Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (386 download)
Download or read book Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds written by M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier) and published by . This book was released on 1758 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds ... Translated by W. Gardiner from the Last Edition of the French. Illustrated with Notes, Etc written by M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier) and published by . This book was released on 1769 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Hayot
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199926697
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book On Literary Worlds written by Eric Hayot and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Literary Worlds develops new strategies and perspectives for understanding aesthetic worlds.
Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3732639975
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Man ́s Place in the Universe written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Man ́s Place in the Universe by Alfred Russel Wallace
Author : Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781904799375
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds written by Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle and published by . This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Bernard de Fontenelle published the first edition of his Entretiens sur la Pluralite des Mondes in 1686, it was an immediate success. In an age when women, even those from the richest and most distinguished families, received little or no formal education, it offered an entertaining and accessible introduction to astronomy and some of the burning topics of the day. Does the earth really go around the sun? Are there other inhabited planets out there? If so, are the inhabitants like us or quite different? Is the moon itself inhabited? Is even the sun inhabited? Are there volcanoes on the moon? How hot is mercury? How long is a Venusian day? Will flying machines one day take us to the moon? Providing new notes, some illustrations and an introduction, this new Tiger of the Stripe edition is based on the 1808 edition of Elizabeth Gunning's translation, retaining the charm which was so essential for the book's success. Miss Gunning, a beautiful and talented novelist with a rather racy personal life, drew on an annotated French edition by the distinguished French astronomer, Jerome de Lalande. This edition thus offers an interesting accretion of ideas, ranging from Fontenelle's 1686 edition and later revisions, Lalande's (sometimes rather critical) comments, Gunning's appropriately flowery translation, and our own explanations for the modern reader. It is, without doubt, a little gem.
Author : Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252069550
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (695 download)
Download or read book Tomorrow's Eve written by Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Take one inventive genius indebted to the friend who saved his life; add an English aristocrat hopelessly consumed with a selfish and spiritually bankrupt woman; stir together with a Faustian pact to create the perfect woman--and voilà! Tomorrow's Eve is served. Robert Martin Adams's graceful translation is the first to bring to English readers this captivating fable of a Thomas Edison-like inventor and his creation, the radiant and tragic android Hadaly. Adams's introduction sketches the uncompromising idealism of the proud but penurious aristocrat Jean Marie Mathias Philippe Auguste, Count Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, a friend and admired colleague of Charles Baudelaire, Stèphane Mallarmé, and Richard Wagner. Villiers dazzles us with a gallery of electronic wonders while unsettling us with the implications of his (and our) increasingly mechanized and mechanical society. A witty and acerbic tale in which human nature, spiritual values, and scientific possibilities collide, Tomorrow's Eve retains an enduring freshness and edge." --Descripción del editor.
